Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  The Irishman 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  living a life in service of an idea that is working to kill you >>>

• 

  Crossing Delancey 1988

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  Great film but as Ariella said, they cheaped out on Bubbie

Popular reviews

• 

  Nosferatu 2024

  ★½ Watched 07 Jan 2025 1

  I love Drac. I love the return of the repressed. I love the impotency of a present, rationalist, technologist moment when confronted with something premodern, arcane, etc.

  In one hundred some years of film history, over the course of which dozens of Dracs have visited the screen, there has developed something called film grammar. This is not merely an accidental product of convention—shot/reverse shot, for example, allows the viewer to track a conversation's dynamics, holding both actors in frame and…

• 

  The Fog 1980

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Oct 2020

  have reached this point of fanaticism in my hatred of adam mckay in large part due to irl friends riding his dick, but this quote from his horrible chapo interview has really stuck in my craw: 'john carpenter, i don't know how conscious he is of what he's doing, but it's just there no matter what, maybe it's accidental...' its not just the blindness to craft, but the insane leap from that to this condescending pose, to suggest that stupid…